The Infinite Godslaying Spear is so heavy because it is inlaid with the Godslaying Bell.

The power of the two strong divine artifacts was inevitably constrained by the laws of the material cosmos. Their power was partially diminished.

Even so, the Infinite Godslaying Spear still weighs 1.298 billion jin without reduction.

The reason why Gao Xuan doesn't use it himself is firstly because the long spear is inconvenient to handle and isn't as stylish as a sword.

On the other hand, the Infinite Godslaying Spear is too heavy. To wield it, he has to support it with his own source power, which is a burden for him.

The mechanical combat body, however, doesn't feel burdened at all, with the Neutron Star Pulse Energy Furnace making wielding the Infinite Godslaying Spear effortless.

The Infinite Godslaying Spear is indeed formidable. Even someone like the Black Banner King can't withstand a strike from it.

This time, however, the situation is very different.

The Black Banner King, whose body was reconstructed using dragon bone spine, possesses an unimaginably strong physical power.

The mechanical combat body wielded the Infinite Godslaying Spear with full force, unleashing incomparable power.

Yet, the Black Banner King grasped it with his hand forcefully and held the Infinite Godslaying Spear in place.

If such power were to strike the Pirate King's Hall, the surrounding tens of thousands of kilometers would be blown into a deep pit.

What's even more terrifying is that the Black Banner King stood motionless, and the entire Pirate King's Hall remained undamaged. This also proved that the Black Banner King completely absorbed the power of the Infinite Godslaying Spear without transferring it to the source power or material level.

Even Gao Xuan was surprised by this. He could only attribute it to the Greed Furnace being strong enough to freely convert between material and source power.

This alone is worthy of being called a divine artifact.

Gao Xuan felt tense inside, as the current Black Banner King exceeded him by far on both spiritual and physical levels.

Especially the strength and constitution of his body, which was incredibly high to a perverse degree.

Gao Xuan was a bit envious, thinking if he had such a physique, wielding the Infinite Godslaying Spear would be unstoppable!

There was no more room to hold back. Everything he had must be brought out to quickly take down this guy.

The Black Banner King had just forged a powerful divine body and mastered the Greed Furnace, so he was still unfamiliar with his immense power and not fully adapted to his new power mode.

This was also the easiest time to defeat him.

Taking advantage of the Black Banner King's complacency, Gao Xuan activated the Godslaying Bell within the Infinite Godslaying Spear.

The Godslaying Bell is not inferior to the Kunyuan Divine Spear, its reputation as a godslayer is deserved.

The bell's sound excels at destroying divine souls.

The deep, massive bell sound seemed to make the entire cosmos resonate.

In reality, the sound of the Godslaying Bell covered an extremely small area, with all its power concentrated on the Black Banner King.

The Black Banner King had never encountered this before. Having lived in the human world for over two thousand years and being a sage of the Mo Sect's Holy Hall, he was extremely knowledgeable about the human world.

This included various secret techniques for cultivating the Golden Bloodline, various powerful marvels, and so on.

In this cosmos, the Black Banner King's experiences surpassed even Gao Xuan's.

The Black Banner King had already witnessed the extraordinary weight of the Infinite Godslaying Spear once. He was prepared for it.

With his reconstructed strong dragon body and the Greed Furnace, the Black Banner King confidently locked down the Infinite Godslaying Spear.

But when the Godslaying Bell tolled, the Black Banner King could hardly bear it.

The Godslaying Bell's immense, heavy tremor targeted the divine soul, causing the Black Banner King's divine soul to quiver uncontrollably.

The divine souls of divine beings are strong, but they have their limits. Faced with the Godslaying Bell's tremor, the Black Banner King started to panic a bit.

The crucial point was that his divine soul followed the tremor uncontrollably, making it difficult for him to concentrate his power.

Even the Greed Furnace trembled naturally with the bell's sound.

The bell resonated to the pores and the bone marrow, making the newly tempered dragon body of the Black Banner King tremble intensely as well.

Skin, bones, organs, brain marrow, including the Greed Furnace, seemed to be on the verge of being shattered by the bell sound.

More frighteningly, the penetrating, tremor-inducing power caused a split between the dragon's spine and the Black Banner King's body.

This was because both were externally constructed. Due to the hasty timing, the dragon's spine hadn't been fully refined. This powerful dragon body had its flaws.

These flaws were deeply hidden within the dragon body, and external attacks could not easily reach here.

Yet the sound of the Godslaying Bell penetrated the skin and flesh, reaching the deepest part of the dragon body.

The Black Banner King felt as if the spine was about to separate from his body, and he was losing grip on the Infinite Godslaying Spear.

But letting go now was not an option; if the opponent thrust forward, his strong dragon body wouldn't withstand it.

The Black Banner King could only continue to channel the Greed Furnace, and regardless of the situation, he had to hold on now.

At this moment, the Godslaying Bell rang again.

With a "dang" sound, the Black Banner King's hand holding the spear trembled countless times with the bell, his bones nearly shattered from the tremors, and his divine soul was on the brink of disintegration.

The Black Banner King couldn't figure out a way to suppress the Godslaying Bell, so he simply focused all his power on Gao Xuan.

As long as Gao Xuan was killed, everything would be over.

The Black Banner King was perceptive enough to realize that the mechanical battle armor behind him was empty and entirely controlled by Gao Xuan through Spiritual Power.

However, Gao Xuan's way of controlling it was bizarre; he manipulated the mechanical battle armor without being restrained by Domain Power.

The Black Banner King activated the Greed Furnace, and the Fire of Greed burned wildly. Refining the dragon's spine bone had consumed more than half of the Greed Furnace's power.

Even so, the remaining power was still extraordinarily strong.

After all, this fire had been accumulated over two thousand years by countless people. It's said that even as a human, let alone the Black Banner King himself, it would be unbearable to withstand such greedy flames.

The Black Banner King raised his crimson pupils and gazed into Gao Xuan's eyes, establishing a close mental connection through their locking gaze.

Through this invisible link, he targetted Gao Xuan's Divine Soul, abruptly launching the Fire of Greed straight at it.

This kind of Divine Soul attack was simple yet extraordinarily effective. It was also the favorite move of deities, especially effective on the strong.

The Divine Soul of strong humans is always full of weaknesses. Even if Gao Xuan's Divine Soul was pristine and flawless, it was useless; the blazing Fire of Greed could incinerate anything.

The scarlet Fire of Greed surged and burned, yet the Black Banner King could not find Gao Xuan's Divine Soul; he could only sense endless cold seawater.

This direct connection of the Divine Soul should leave Gao Xuan's Divine Soul with nowhere to hide. Yet his soul was concealed within this endless, icy, deep seawater, with no trace.

The Black Banner King also discovered another issue: this wasn't Gao Xuan's Sea of Consciousness.

He didn't understand why, through the direct soul connection, he ended up in this place.

The endless cold seawater wasn't an illusion but a concentrated manifestation of boundless Source Power. This immense power also contained profoundly deep structural changes.

"This Source Power change is so familiar, this is... the depths of the Hongyi Sword..."

The Black Banner King suddenly realized that Gao Xuan somehow hid his Divine Soul in the depths of the Hongyi Sword.

Through the soul link, he directly ended up in the depths of the Hongyi Sword. The raging Fire of Greed was helpless against the endless Water Elemental Source Power.

The Fire of Greed targeted Spiritual Power, at the level of the Divine Soul. It didn't affect the transformations of Water Elemental Source Power.

It should be said that the two powers were not on the same level, lacking a bridge to guide them; their powers wouldn't clash.

The Black Banner King was even more astonished; Gao Xuan was this cunning, directly parasitizing his Divine Soul inside the Sword Artifact. Moreover, the Source Power reaction within the Sword Artifact was incredibly potent and unique.

Gao Xuan's Divine Soul was precisely fused with these Water Elemental Source Powers; unless these Elemental Powers were entirely broken, his Divine Soul could not be found.

The Black Banner King calculated that doing so would be too troublesome. Transforming the Fire of Greed into Source Power would result in very little power.

The Black Banner King didn't want to entangle with Gao Xuan anymore; this guy had too many tricks. He didn't have to kill Gao Xuan.

It's better to retreat first, find a place to cultivate for a few years, familiarizing himself with his brand new dragon body and power. Once he reached his peak strength, he could come after Gao Xuan again.

After living in the human world for over two thousand years, the Black Banner King had learned one truth: preserving oneself was always of primary importance; eliminating the enemy was secondary.

If you die, what's the point of eliminating the enemy?

Only by staying alive does everything hold meaning.

The Black Banner King was about to sever the soul connection with Gao Xuan when an indescribable, wondrous power established a stable connection with his soul.

The Black Banner King came over on his own; how could Gao Xuan let him escape? He threw a Soul Chain over, locking the Hongyi Sword along with the Black Banner King.

Gao Xuan had long anticipated that Evil Gods liked playing with spiritual impacts and Divine Soul destruction, so he used the Sacrificial Refining Method of sword cultivators from the Cultivator World to refine the Hongyi Sword, leaving a touch of Divine Soul Spirit deep within it.

When he detected the Black Banner King attempting a soul shock, Gao Xuan's Divine Soul entered the Hongyi Sword.

Of the twelve billion eight hundred million Profound Nether Curses, Gao Xuan only refined a little bit. Just this little bit was enough to accommodate his Divine Soul.

By hiding his soul among countless Profound Nether Curses, while Gao Xuan couldn't manipulate these curses, any intruder trying to cause destruction would first have to deal with these curses.

Gao Xuan believed that no Divine in this cosmos had the ability to refine twelve billion eight hundred million Profound Nether Curses at once.

If he truly encountered such a powerful Divine, he would have nothing to say even if he died.

The Black Banner King, not knowing the depths, charged in with his soul carrying the fierce Fire of Greed; there was no way Gao Xuan would let him escape.

If this guy's soul didn't come out, even locking it with the Soul Chain would have been futile. Because, on the soul level, Gao Xuan wasn't stronger than the Black Banner King, and might even be far inferior.

But with the Black Banner King's soul entering the Hongyi Sword, even just for a moment, there was no way he could let him escape.

The Soul Chain's ability was extremely abnormal; it could traverse the cosmos, connecting Divine Souls.

Although the Black Banner King was an Evil God, his soul level wasn't much stronger than Gao Xuan's. Once caught by the Soul Chain, the Black Banner King's soul was trapped inside the Hongyi Sword.

The Black Banner King could still control his own body, but with his soul trapped inside the Hongyi Sword, he was in deep trouble.

He knew there was only one way to leave here: to destroy Gao Xuan's Divine Soul.

The problem was that Gao Xuan's Divine Soul was hidden deep within the Water Elemental Source Power, and he couldn't find it. His only option was to use brute force to break through the boundless sea before him.

The Black Banner King refused to believe that a simple Sword Artifact could contain Source Power changes as vast as this. No matter what, it couldn't possibly compare to the Greed Furnace.

Gao Xuan's soul, hidden in the depths of the Profound Nether Curse Sea, sensed the Black Banner King spurring on the Fire of Greed, and he couldn't help but laugh; this old fellow was quite naive...